Hawkeye . Iowa IN a brief sketch of football as developed at the University of Iowa it may notbe amiss to call the readers attention to the great age of the game few following facts are taken from a short account of this game byHorace Butterworth. The game is first mentioned by English writers in1175 when the men were spoken of as playing football on Shrove Puritan writer, Stubbes, speaks of football playing and other devil-ish pastimes. James I. called it a game better for laming than makingable the user. The game was very popular during the sixteenth, seven-teenth and
Hawkeye . Iowa IN a brief sketch of football as developed at the University of Iowa it may notbe amiss to call the readers attention to the great age of the game few following facts are taken from a short account of this game byHorace Butterworth. The game is first mentioned by English writers in1175 when the men were spoken of as playing football on Shrove Puritan writer, Stubbes, speaks of football playing and other devil-ish pastimes. James I. called it a game better for laming than makingable the user. The game was very popular during the sixteenth, seven-teenth and eighteenth centuries. The first half of the nineteenth centurywitnessed the game developed along two distinct lines at the great schools,Rugby and Eaton. The former played a game that permitted the ball to becarried while at Eaton it was only a kicking game. In 1863 the Football Associationadopted the kicking, Association game and in 1871 the Rugby Football Unionarranged games between England and We 3Poot=3Ball ^Team of 1890 In probably 1875 Harvard learned the Rugby game from the Canadians and in thefollowing year, 1876, induced Yale to play with Harvard at New Haven, the first intercol-legiate game of Rugby football played in this country. The Intercollegiate Football
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